If you are considering trying out hypnotherapy for the first time, the first thing you should know is that there is no single standardised hypnotherapy, but rather different types of hypnotherapy that different therapists might use or specialise in. The following will be a brief overview of the most common types of hypnotherapy so you can decide which type sounds best suited to your particular issue.

Mental rehearsal, sometimes also referred to as “future pacing”, is often used by athletes or other performers to rehearse an upcoming performance in their mind prior to the actual execution of it. It can also be used to help people achieve any kind of goal, and hypnotherapists often employ it not only for p

The term “hypnotic phenomena” refers to the different kinds of responses that can be elicited from a person who has been put into a hypnotic state. In some cases these responses also happen on their own without any suggestion coming from the hypnotherapist.

Hypnotherapy has been used with success to treat a surprising number or personal issues. An exhaustive list would be far too long for a single post! Accordingly, the following will be a more of an overall breakdown of the kinds of things you can reasonably expect hypnotherapy to help you with.

Many clients are curious to find out what the experience of hypnotherapy is like before taking the plunge and signing up for sessions. Unfortunately it is difficult to give a universal answer because different people experience hypnosis in different ways.

A recent client of mine had originally come to see me about an issue not related to her hay fever, but I could not help but notice that she was suffering from it in a severe way so I inquired about it and discovered that she had a daily morning routine of sneezing spasms, coughing, and wheezing sometimes even to the point of retching! She had pretty much resigned herself to the fact that she was stuck with this problem for life and wasn’t even looking for a solution for it at the time.

Some thoughts seem to spring up all on their own at exactly the wrong time. One example that many people experience is imagining jumping from a cliff or a ledge when standing somewhere at a high altitude. Many people also suddenly imagine jumping in front of a train as it is about to pass the station, and some even imagine…

It may surprise you to hear that fear of the dentist is one of the most common phobias I come across in my hypnotherapy practice, and many people who come in for this reason also ask about how they can stop grinding their teeth.

The fear of standing up in front of other people is often considered to be the most common form of anxiety found throughout the Western World, and performance anxiety is likely the most common form of this fear of being seen by a group.

We get a lot of questions about the differences, if any, between meditation, hypnosis, and mindfulness, and we find the following to be the best way to explain the differences between them. Though they all do have certain similarities, they are nevertheless all different enough from one another to be c